Connecting the dots…

Thoughts on Web Development, Scalability and Application Architecture

Month: March, 2009

Enabling HTTPS support in curl installed through MacPorts on OSX

While doing development just noticed that if you have installed php with curl support using macports it does’nt install ssl support in curl by default which is quite frustrating. Especially I just spent 30mins of my life trying to debugging what had gone wrong. This is what you would get if you have a similar [...]

PHP, Mail and OSX Leopard

I have been trying to get my old apps to send emails, but for some wierd reason I couldnt get it working out of the fox. If you have had similar problems, you can try out this. Step 1: Update the hostconfig file. Add the following line to /etc/hostconfig MAILSERVER=-YES- Step 2: Update variable myhostname [...]

Using macport to setup php5 / apache2 on Leopard

As you can tell I got myself a new macbook and its pretty much ritualistic to install apache/php5 on it for me. I agree it comes with both of them pre-installed but really I just like to do it for the easy of configuration. I have written earlier how I compiled everything on Leopard in [...]